Bill Gates
I like Bill Gates.
BILL GATES' SPEECH
TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL
in
Visalia, California. Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head
with this!
To anyone! with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently gave
a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in
school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a
generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up
for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not
fair - - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world
won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish
something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT
make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president
with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think
your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping
burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word
for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess
up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn
from them.
Rule 7: Before you
were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way
from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about
how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the
parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own
room.
Rule 8: Your school
may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools
they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you
want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to
ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not
divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are
interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television
is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop
and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to
nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one
........ and to make it an
EVEN
DOZEN
I'll
add my own to this ...
Rule # 12:
If you
ever find yourself with NOTHING to do....
Have a
great day,
Ray
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